PDA

View Full Version : Judges orders millions paid in NYC firefighter bias case



Mister D
03-12-2012, 03:42 PM
A U.S. district judge ordered New York City to pay $128 million in to firefighters who allege the city used an entrance exam that deliberately sought to keep African-Americans and Latino Americans off the force. The judge also ordered the FDNY to hire 293 black and Latino applicants.

Snip

The lawsuit alleged that the exams had little to do with firefighting and instead focused on cognitive and reading skills. Because of the hereditary nature of the fire department, white candidates were recruited and supported throughout the application process by family or neighborhood contacts and whites consistently passed while minority candidates failed.

Apparently, a test focusing on cognitive and reading skills is racial discrimination ipso facto.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/08/us/new-york-firefighter-lawsuit-bias/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Conley
03-12-2012, 04:16 PM
So the whites won their lawsuit and the blacks won theirs? It's almost not worth it to have fire departments what with all these legal costs. Wasn't the other case in Buffalo? The cities are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Mister D
03-12-2012, 05:41 PM
Agreed. It's truly ridiculous and a city can't win. Worse still, a lot of these cases revolve around disparate impact. Remember when Bank of America settled that discrimination claim out of court recently? What happened was that some government bureaucrats decided that since blacks and Hispanics were more likely to have higher interest loans than whites it was evidence of discrimination. Rather than fight the government in court BoA paid.